Search results

The Green Bank Observatory is open to the public and offers tours of the radio telescopes: Science Center - Green Bank Observatory IIRC, you can walk the grounds as long as you leave all of your electronics behind.

I run 21's during the summer and 19's with Sottozero's in the winter, mainly because I want more sidewall when snow has obscured the potholes and the road damage done by plowing. The other nice thing about having two wheel and tire sets is that I can just swap the wheels myself.

NBC 29 coverage: Tesla Supercharger Stations Open at Shops at Stonefield

It showed "Supercharging" display on the center screen and all the usual lights and sounds happened.

I only tried a single stall (2A) for a couple of minutes on the way home from work. I suppose it's not really done until it shows up on the nav, but it's close.

Online.

Yes, it was a green enclosure.

There was a pretty good sized crew pulling cable into a new enclosure when I drove by this afternoon.

In 2.5 years, I've never seen the louvers open on my car, even when supercharging in warm weather and the fans sounding like the car's about to lift itself into the air. I'm guessing the answer is no, but is there any way to function-check them myself?

I drove past the supercharger on Sunday and there was a crew with a horizontal drilling rig set up on the same street corner as the equipment pen. Maybe it's a crew to bring a power feeder over to the SpC?

A "Final Building" inspection is showing as pending on the county's permitting site (screenshot attached). The scheduled date and date of inspection are listed as today, the 28th.

I drove the BRP in the opposite direction last month, from Waynesboro to Asheville. Taking the BRP up to US-21 or I-77 to Wytheville without stopping should be doable. On my trip south, I left from the Hotel Roanoke and had lunch at a Tesla destination charger in Blowing Rock at Canyons...

At Stonefield today. No change in status, the stalls are still covered in plastic.

My personal experience says that 3mph rate might be a tad optimistic on a longer wiring run. Since you're going to be there for a few days, plug in and check on it after 12 hours to see what kind of sustained rate you're actually getting. It'll be warm, so you won't lose much, if any, power to...

I switched to the EV+Home plan when I got my car and my electricity bills before and after stayed the same, even with daily charging. My house is heated with gas (although the winter peak rate is only slightly above the nominal rate) and I have a Nest thermostat set up so that the AC only...

I was at Stonefield today. There were a few construction-type vehicles in that lot, but I think it's related to the next phase of condos they're building next door. No digging in the lot or equipment crates. However, there was a Tesla road-show at Stonefield this weekend with some X's and an...

The Hyatt Place at Stonefield has two destination chargers. There's also a surface lot downtown at 1st and Market St. with another destination charger as well as a DC charger, according to PlugShare. My wife is a regular at Tru Pilates Studio, which would just be a couple of blocks away from...

Stonefield is just over the border in Albemarle county (see attached). The county's permitting website is here: Welcome and Stonefield's parcel number is 061W0-03-00-019A0. The permit, B201700323NC, is showing as having been issued. Be warned that the permitting site is less-than-modern...

Building permit applied for 2/09/2017. The county's permitting system doesn't support deep-linking, a screenshot is attached. Looks like it'll be in the corner of the Hyatt Place's parking lot adjacent to Stonefield Commons at 2100 Bond St. The permit says four supercharger cabinets and four...

It's about avoiding surprising behavior when I, the driver, am 100% liable for the operation of the vehicle. Given that there was no obvious-to-me reason for the car to slow down below the speed I had set, and no prior expectation that this behavior even existed, I was surprised that the car...

I've had two incidents of unexpected deceleration on divided highways. I have sent the following to ServiceHelpNA in the hope that enough feedback will make it to the right people who can improve the situation. To whom it may concern (preferably someone in the Autopilot project-management...

I had that same issue earlier this year with a bad seal on the rear applique. Trunk shower The service center fixed the problem, but I did need to battle a little bit of funk that set in as the carpet had stayed damp due to frequent rain storms. You may want to ask to have the carpeting and...

My rubric is charging an extra 10% of the estimated consumption, so if it would take 60% to get to the next stop, I'll charge to 66%. Having a flat floor of N-percent across the board is sub-optimal

I took a road trip back in May from Charlottesville, VA to Savannah, GA via the South Hill, Lumberton, and Santee SuperChargers, then up to Asheville, NC via Santee and Greenville, and then back home via Wytheville and Lexington. With longer trips, where the one thing I have to do in a day is...

I checked the usual suspects in the Albemarle County permitting system this morning and nothing jumps out as being Tesla-related. I had spoken to a local commercial realtor who helped Tesla pick a location last year, but haven't heard anything since then.

The service center called me back today to say that it was indeed a problem with the rear applique and that they've replaced it with an updated part.

My battery was red-flagged by engineering during a routine trip through the service center when the logs showed charging problems and was swapped for a loaner battery the first week of September 2015. The service center called me in December to reunite the pack with the car and picked up the...

I, too, in the past couple of weeks saw the yellow triangle, with no dashed lines, on the top end during a road trip. It was boring interstate driving at normal SoC, but I'd been at it for several hours that day with a couple of supercharger stops. It turned on and off a couple of times, but...

That's helpful, thank you. When this happened to you, was there water also visible inside the taillight assembly? I think I can rig something up that'll stay put to at least cover the rear of the hatch deck as it's predicted to be rainy until my service appointment next week. I only wish my...

Well, the tarp slid off overnight and magnets don't exactly work on aluminum :-)

For a moment this morning, I thought I heard sloshing and dismissed it. Later in the day, I opened the trunk and about a pint of water pours out from behind the hatch pull-down handles as though a glass had been knocked over. I usually duck into the trunk while it's opening, so shower time...

Upgrade scheduled at Tyson's for 5/18 (deposit paid 9/30) only after reaching out to ServiceHelpNA. The later install date is due to loaner availability.

It's probably the temperature. Below 50F, summer tires on my P85D are a poor choice; the tire compound gets hard and the tires will routinely skip when pulling out of my driveway or making sharp turns at low speeds. If you have a torque wrench, you can also check that that your lug nuts are...

You say things like this and I realize my order from September 30 at Tyson's is still pending. I guess it's worth an email to see if I'm still on the list.

My car, also with 2.14.66, was non-responsive this morning with the "waiting for systems to power up" message. I had to reboot the center display in order for the car to power up.

I jumped from 2.10.71 to 2.13.77 and the auto-brightness no longer keeps turning the night-mode brightness all the way down to zero during twilight. If you unchecked the box in a previous release, you might want to try it out again

Exactly, I meant it the other way around.

*Shrug* I was assuming all of this firmware-poking was happening on the CID, which is used for communication purposes. Man asks his lawyer: "Is this legal?" Lawyer: "Yes, if you're acquitted." ... but I digress. Tesla has a pretty fantastic mobile (wearable?) computing platform. It's a real...

The apparent fact of the matter is that Telsa's release-engineering process left information that they did not intend to make public on hardware owned by someone else who has the ability and inclination to understand the operation of the devices that he possesses. As the saying goes "If you...

Half-fast (Say it once or twice)

This is what the Nest Thermostat's scheduler looks like. This screenshot is from the web app, but the mobile apps have the same setup. If the car UI had something like this where you just slide and tap-to-adjust the times and temperatures, the preconditioning would be usable.

My calendar was synced from my Nexus 5 (Android 6.0.1) when I got into the car this morning.

I travel this 55mph road to work each morning and AP's lane biasing, combined with intermittent detection of the low curb on the median side, makes the car act like it's going to cut people off in the right-hand lane. At a minimum, it's unnerving to use AP on this stretch of road. Other 45+...

Keep it under 80 in Virginia. (You probably already knew this, although I had a friend once get jammed up this way.) Never Speed In Virginia: Lessons From My Three Days In Jail

Yes, Nexus 5 running stock 6.0.1.

Is anyone else seeing the latest Android app keep their phone's GPS turned on? I've seen this more than once if I forget to kill the app when I'm finished using it, which seems to be standard-operating-policy to solve the initial-connection problems. Screenshot attached showing a cumulative 5...

Autopilot is doing a much better job of following the lane in the presence of exit-lanes or wyes in the painted lines. The right-hand lane marker in the IC was more consistently showing blue than in the previous firmware. Also, the barrier-versus-other-car lateral spacing felt more comfortable...

Installing now to turn my car into the most expensive RC car ever? Probably some combination of: • Limited screen real-estate: scrolling settings screens negatively affect the user-experience • Observed usage stats • The cost of being "wrong" is low: there are two single-action ways to unlock...

I just got off the phone with Tysons SC since my car is already in to correct some suspension noises and to have its original battery reinstalled after being reworked at Fremont. If I understood the upgrade situation correctly, it sounds like Fremont is sending ludicrous kits on a car-by-car basis.

It's far from 64, but Route 29 is pretty much the main north-south corridor to NoVA / DC once you get west of I-95, but want to stay east of the mountains. The Stonefield location would be great for the Burlington, NC via Charlottesville to DC drive, while a charger in Staunton/Fishersville...